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Janet Grant

What Is Over-Editing and What to Do About It

February 10, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  9 Comments

Author Dies While Reading Edited Manuscript

Such a headline might well echo the feelings an author experiences when, much to his horror, he discovers his editor has–ahem–done some pretty creative work on the manuscript sent into the publishing house. (An …

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Favorite 2020 Reads

January 20, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  29 Comments

Each January each year, I ponder which books I read the year before that were the most rewarding, stayed with me the longest (not in a bad way, like indigestion), and were the most exquisitely written. Below are my favorite …

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Introducing a New Literary Agent

January 6, 2021 //  by Janet Grant//  19 Comments

With the entrance of 2021, Books & Such is adding a gem of a new literary agent to our roster, Mary DeMuth. Mary has been a part of the Christian publishing industry for decades, having written 40 books, both fiction …

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New Year’s Meanderings

December 30, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  10 Comments

I wrote this blog post for New Year’s 2009 (you know, during the economic recession). As I pondered leaving behind 2020 (thank, God!) and looking through the dark hours of the pandemic, I realized my 2009 meanderings are just as …

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What Could Make Any Christmas the Best Ever?

December 24, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  4 Comments

This year I find myself realizing that not having a large family Christmas gathering leaves plenty of space to think about what we’re really celebrating at Christmas. To slow my heart to a more tempered pace this 2020 Christmas, I’m …

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What Does an In-House Editor Do for You?

December 2, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  11 Comments

Some publishers have chosen to downsize the number of in-house editors but instead to rely on freelancers. That decision raises the question, What does an in-house editor do for you?

Having been such an editor, I have personal insights into …

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Pandemic Reading

November 11, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  16 Comments

When most of the nation went into lock-down late in March, people explored all sorts of pursuits they had neither the time nor the inclination for until then. That all seems like a dream now, but last week I noted …

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Picking the Right Agent for You

October 21, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

Once you’ve created the best query you can (a la my most recent blog post) and have your proposal ready to submit, you’re mind will turn toward finding an agent. Let’s be clear about one thing: You don’t want …

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Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Query

September 30, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  16 Comments

The first thing to do in writing a query is to…not write the query yet. Give it some incubation time.

Rather than jumping into your query, take your time to force yourself to define–really define–the project.

You’re ready to write

…

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Writing Hack: Sharpen Your Sentences

September 9, 2020 //  by Janet Grant//  8 Comments

For the first, oh, decade or so of my writing career, I thought my writing was pretty good. So I didn’t understand why magazine editors found it necessary to take my perfectly serviceable sentences and render them “less interesting.” That …

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